This week I'm off to the Canberra Java User Group to give people a quick over view of Maven technology (6PM, Wednesday, August 12 – see the CJUG site for venue details). It's going to be pretty condensed, but enough interesting demos to give you a feel for what all the fuss is about.

Topics I'll be covering include:

• Comparison with Ant
• Convention over configuration stuff
• Dependencies and Repos
• POMs, Plugins and the Build lifecycle
• Site Generation and Reporting
• IDE Support
• Tons of hands-on live demos

It's going to be a fun night, and if you enjoy the night, you can sign up for Maven Quickstart and get a whole day of deep-dive training to get you up to speed and productive.

Should be a fun night. See you there for Pizza and build tools!